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Lincoln's Assassins : Their Trial and Execution. by Swanson, James L.,1959-(CARDINAL)604034; Weinberg, Daniel.;
Subjects: Booth, John Wilkes, 1838-1865.; Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865; United States. Army. Military Commission (Lincoln's assassins : 1865);

The trial and execution of Charles I / by Cowie, Leonard W.(CARDINAL)125137;
Bibliography: pages 122-123.Traces the events leading to the execution of Charles I and briefly discusses the impact of that execution of English history.
Subjects: Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649.;

The trial and execution of the traitor George Washington : a novel / by Rosenberg, Charles,author.;
"British special agent Jeremiah Black, an officer of the King's Guard, lands on a lonely beach in the wee hours of the morning in late November 1780. The revolution is in full swing but has become deadlocked. Black is here to change all that. His mission, aided by Loyalists, is to kidnap George Washington and spirit him back to London aboard the HMS Peregrine, a British sloop of war that is waiting closely offshore. Once he lands, though, the "aid by Loyalists" proves problematic because some would prefer just to kill the general outright. Black manages--just--to get Washington aboard the Peregrine, which sails away. Upon their arrival in London, Washington is imprisoned in the Tower to await trial on charges of high treason. England's most famous barristers seek to represent him but he insists on using an American. He chooses Abraham Hobhouse, an American-born barrister with an English wife--a man who doesn't really need the work and thinks the "career-building" case will be easily resolved through a settlement of the revolution and Washington's release. But as greater political and military forces swirl around them and peace seems ever more distant, Hobhouse finds that he is the only thing keeping Washington from the hangman's noose. Drawing inspiration from a rumored kidnapping plot hatched in 1776 by a member of Washington's own Commander-in-Chief Guard, Charles Rosenberg has written a compelling novel that envisions what would take place if the leader of America's fledgling rebellion were taken from the nation at the height of the war, imperiling any chance of victory."--Amazon.
Subjects: Alternative histories (Fiction); Historical fiction.; Legal fiction (Literature); Washington, George, 1732-1799; Treason; Treason; Trials;

The measure of justice / by Linder, Steven.(CARDINAL)745796;
Subjects: Western fiction.; Company towns; Executions and executioners;

Stolen in the night [large print] by MacDonald, Patricia J.(CARDINAL)355087;
Tess DeGraff leads a satisfying life as a documentary filmmaker and the adoptive single mother of an 11-year-old boy...even though she's still haunted by the murder of her sister. Tess was only nine when her family's camping trip in New Hampshire turned deadly. Her eyewitness testimony convicted Lazarus Abbott who was subsequently put to death. Abbott's mother always believed her son was innocent and a DNA test now reveals that he was not the killer. Tess is stunned by the news, and returns to the small New Hampshire town determined to discover the truth for herself. Could digging up the facts cause a replay of the nightmare she's spent her life trying to forget - a nightmare that involves her next of kin? Inside front and back covers.
Subjects: Large print books.; Novels.; Thrillers (Fiction); Executions and executioners; Mothers and sons; Recombinant DNA;

Stolen in the night / by MacDonald, Patricia J.(CARDINAL)355087;
When Tess DeGraff was nine years old and on a camping trip in New Hampshire with her family, a stranger kidnapped and killed her sister Phoebe. Thanks to Tess's eyewitness testimony, a man named Lazarus Abbott was arrested and convicted for the heinous crime. But twenty years later, a test reveals that Abbott's DNA does not match that of Phoebe's murderer. Driven by her fear that she may have sent an innocent man to his death, Tess and her adopted son, Erny, return to the New Hampshire town in which it all happened years ago. Stone Hill, New Hampshire, is still an idyllic New England town. Tess's courageous mother, Dawn, who suffered the violent loss of her daughter and the early death of her heartbroken husband, now runs the charming Stone Hill Inn. Tess's older brother, Jake, lives nearby with his wife, a local girl he fell in love with during the trial of his sister's killer. While Tess's family stands by her account of the crime, nerves are frayed throughout Stone Hill, and others in town accuse her of lying and view her as a murderer.
Subjects: Large print books.; Thrillers (Fiction); Mothers and sons; Executions and executioners; Recombinant DNA;

Flanna and the lawman [large print] by Maxwell, Cathy.(CARDINAL)351015;
Subjects: Large print books.; Romance fiction.; Western fiction.; Executions and executioners; False personation; Women landowners;

Shadows in the asylum : the case files of Dr. Charles Marsh / by Stern, D. A.(David A.)(CARDINAL)537186;
Subjects: Epistolary fiction.; Psychological fiction.; Thrillers (Fiction); Executions and executioners; Psychiatric hospital patients;

A brief history of capital punishment in North Carolina / by Behre, Chris.; North Carolina.Department of Correction.(CARDINAL)133949;
Subjects: Capital punishment; Executions and executioners;

Billy Budd, and other stories / by Melville, Herman,1819-1891,author.(CARDINAL)138287; Busch, Frederick,writer of introduction.(CARDINAL)771922;
Seven stories deal with a slave rebellion, an obstinate copyist, an accidental murder, a voyage to the Galapagos Islands and a bachelors' dinner party.1430L
Subjects: Fiction.; Sea stories, American.; Executions and executioners; Ship captains;

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